AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott submitted a letter requesting an extension of the deadline to submit a major disaster declaration request from the federal government following a series of severe storms and deadly tornadoes that impacted communities across Texas last month.
“Our request to extend the initial declaration request period is due to the size of the impacted area, ongoing additional disasters in the impacted region, and the need to distinguish damages caused by the severe weather and tornadoes that repeatedly impacted the state for over a week,” Abbott wrote in a July 14 letter.
“FEMA, the state of Texas, and local jurisdictions are working nonstop to ensure damage assessments are validated accurately and the full geographic scope of the disaster is realized,” he added.
